Felix Hausdorff was a German mathematician, pseudonym Paul Mongré, who is considered to be one of the founders of modern topology and who contributed significantly to set theory, descriptive set theory, measure theory, and functional analysis.
Felix Hausdorff
Hausdorff's gravestone in Bonn-Poppelsdorf
Hausdorffstraße (Bonn)
Topology is the part of mathematics concerned with the properties of a geometric object that are preserved under continuous deformations, such as stretching, twisting, crumpling, and bending; that is, without closing holes, opening holes, tearing, gluing, or passing through itself.
Möbius strips, which have only one surface and one edge, are a kind of object studied in topology.
A continuous transformation can turn a coffee mug into a donut. Ceramic model by Keenan Crane and Henry Segerman.